HIT seems a new rule of TV that male chefs can be as unphotogenic as they want – think The Hairy Bikers and Gordon Ramsay – but that female cooks can only grace our screens if they are drop-dead gorgeous.

NOW you’ve shed the excess pounds from Christmas with the help of our guide to getting back in shape for the new year and have had chance to work your way through our list of Birmingham’s best beers, we bring you our latest Top Ten, which looks at the city’s curry houses.